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Harissa Chicken with Chickpea Salad

A low-fat, fibre-filled supper with a superhealthy side - just the thing for midweek

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and harissa share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 53 recipes mention both. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep15 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Parsley + harissatop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Chickpea + harissatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chickpea + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together314 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, chickpea, parsley, lemon, chicken, harissa, yogurt):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, chickpea, parsley, lemon, chicken, harissa, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).